the entire sex trade. The party also wants guidance issued by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling to be withdrawn. Denyer told the BBC this week that the guidance puts trans people at risk of discrimination. But what about women?
They don't care.
The brutality Afghan women endure under Taliban rule is not just a national crisis—it is a stain on the conscience of the world. Girls as young as ten are being stripped of education. Women are being beaten in the streets for the simple act of trying to live. Every day, their… pic.twitter.com/wLkFiRmxT9
— WDI.Afghanistan (@WDIAfghanistan) August 2, 2025
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"Every day, their rights are crushed under the weight of a regime that sees their existence as a threat.
And yet, the world watches. Silent. Indifferent. Complicit.
Where are the voices that once claimed to defend freedom and human rights? Where is the outrage that should shake global institutions to their core? Afghan women are not statistics. They are our sisters, our daughters, our future—and they are being erased in real time.
We must not look away. We must not normalize this. We must speak. Share. Act."
"The video shows Evyatar in a really deep and extreme starvation. It's the same tunnel I was held in. Just few meters away there is an iron door. Behind that door Hamas terrorists eating plenty of food – vegetables, meat, fish, fruits. They steal it from humanitarian aid that is… pic.twitter.com/nDUe6EpXdF
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"They steal it from humanitarian aid that is supposed to be for the people of Gaza.
"This is deliberate starvation of the hostages by Hamas commanders, that is only for propaganda, in a really really sadistic way. Evyatar looks like he lost 40 or even 50 kg, and he is in a really extreme life threatening danger. I don't think that now he has even few days left to live.
"People who see this video – please affect your governments to pressure Hamas to give the hostages food, as they have really really a lot of, just in the next room".
Former hostage Tal Soham who was held by Hamas for 505 days, most of which he spent with Evyatar David.
From the Jerusalem Post:
Hamas published a video of hostage Evyatar David on Friday evening. The David family has not approved the publication of the content at this time.
This is the second hostage video Gazan terror groups have released in 24 hours. Palestinian Islamic Jihad released a video of hostage Rom Braslavski on Thursday.
Rom Braslavski, yesterday.
Added: see here. Skeletal, and forced to dig his own grave. And here.
Janice Turner in the Times on the class snobbery at the heart of the Sandie Peggie case – a working-class woman being hounded by doctors and managers for wrongthink on trans ideology:
Each day we learnt new ways in which senior hospital staff had persecuted a nurse with a flawless record. Jamie Doyle, head of nursing, wanted Peggie reported to the police. Upton claimed to have noted earlier incidents in which Peggie’s hostility towards him had endangered patients. But no one corroborated these grave claims and an IT expert who analysed Upton’s phone testified that these were not contemporaneous notes but added after the Christmas Eve row. (Peggie was cleared of these and other allegations in a separate hospital disciplinary inquiry.)
Why did all of these senior people fall over themselves to take Upton’s side, even at the expense of truth? Because trans identity tops an all-important oppression hierarchy and the purest form of virtue is being a “trans ally”. To prove this, both the head of diversity, Isla Bumba, and Searle, an A&E consultant, claimed neither knew Upton’s sex, or even their own. “I’ve never had my chromosomes tested,” said Bumba. Does Searle do this before prescribing the correct drug dosage for a female patient? Of course not. No one really believes such absurdity: they mouth it out of religious obeisance….
Four months after the Supreme Court clarified the meaning of sex, it is an outrage that public money is still being squandered while women fight for basic rights. Why does the Health and Safety Executive not remind employers of 1992 workplace laws which mandate single-sex changing? Why are NHS England and the NHS Confederation allowed by the health secretary, Wes Streeting, to drag their feet? The ludicrous joke that sex is an unfathomable mystery has worn very thin.
Our ex-Harvard Liverpudlian philosopher is now enthusiastically catching up…
Hey remember when convicted kidnapper, torturer and attempted-murderer Alan ‘Sarah Jane’ Baker called on a crowd of TRAs to ‘Punch a TERF in the fucking face’, thereby splitting the TRA movement as some felt she’d gone too far?https://t.co/ayidVZAWdd
Oh wait none of them…
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"Oh wait none of them raised the slightest objection"
Nick Freitas, a combat veteran:
“When Hamas attacked Israel, they knew the Israeli army would go after them. Hamas also knew the Western media would be behind them.”
He was right all along.
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) August 1, 2025
John Vachon, April 1943. "Dallas, Texas. Linotype operators at the Dallas Morning News."
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b of ensuring that what’s supposed to be education doesn’t slide into indoctrination.”
I say there has been a huge shift in the trans debate in Britain since the Supreme Court ruling in April that “woman” means a biological woman. Will the US follow? “Yes but much more slowly. I don’t know. There’s more of a kind of cultural docility. Like most British people, I hate extolling the virtues of British people, but I do think that we benefit from a very long tradition of mocking literally everything. You don’t really have that in the States.”
Update: Jimmy Doyle clarifies – "I wasn’t a professor at Harvard. I was an untenured lecturer. That’s one reason it was much more risky for me to speak out than it would have been for most people."
and unjust. In the Middle Ages, this meant Jews were thought to be literally satanic, blood-drinking demons in human form; in modern times, the right-wing myth of Judeo-Communism and the left’s imaginings about Jewish capitalism served this purpose. This was not only about Jews being an unwanted minority; it was a more profound imagining of Jews as a representation of the evils that need to be purged to make the world pure.
This is why it is so striking that Israel, the most visible global expression of Jewish life today, is treated by some as the absolute archetype of a human rights transgressor in a world in which human rights are the highest measure of moral good. Israel does things that are deserving of censure, but Israel’s actions alone do not explain why it gets this unique treatment, different from all other states and nations. This discrepancy, this unique standard applied to Israel, is a reflection of something much deeper. Just as Jews, in history, were feared and hated as a dangerous presence in society, representing all of humanity’s worst and most harmful features, so today the same applies to the Jewish State. There was even an article in the Guardian in May blaming Israel for climate change. Anything can be made to fit.
This all finds it purest expression now in the accusation of "settler colonialism" as an indictment of Israel as an illegitimate state, with those "from the river to the sea" calls for its destruction. Settler colonialism was originally coined with reference to Australia, Canada, the US, where it had no doubt more than a grain of truth. Obviously, though, no one really believed these countries would be abandoned, given back to the original inhabitants. But Israel fit the bill perfectly – provided you ignore the fact that Israel is the Jews' ancestral home, that they were there thousands of years before the Arabs, and that a good half of the Jews now in Israel are Mizrahi Jews thrown out of their homes across the Middle East and North Africa in a wave of antisemitic violence after Israel's founding. And of course the Left and the Israel-haters are very happy to ignore that – or waste their time pretending it's not true.
So the guilt felt by these inhabitants of settler colonialist countries – not coincidentally now where the protestors seem most vocal in their hatred of Israel – is turned on that old scapegoat, the Jew. History repeats itself.
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I did. Barely. As Douglas Murray so rightly chronicled in The Spectator, O’Brien’s enthusiasm for Beech’s lies was exceptional even among the most credulous. He helped transform what should have been a laughable conspiracy into a national witch-hunt.
One result? I lost my home. I lost my livelihood. I was reduced to living in a converted shed with my partner, three dogs and no running water. At one point, I received so many credible death threats that police advised me to leave my home immediately. I feared not only for my life, but my partner’s too.
But unlike O’Brien, I do not have a radio studio from which to deflect responsibility. I had nothing but the truth, and eventually the truth prevailed, though not before devastating damage had been done.
Yet, when Beech was finally exposed and sentenced to 18 years in prison, what was O’Brien’s response? A tone-deaf tweet in July 2019 lamenting that he had been misled, while still insisting that “telling abuse survivors they’ll be believed” was the right thing to do. No apology. No mention of me, or Lord Bramall, Lord Brittan, or the other victims. Just a self-pitying shrug dressed up as principle….
The offences for which I was convicted in 1987 are no longer offences. The law has changed; society has changed. But O’Brien has not. He continues to peddle moral certainty while refusing to reckon with his own past, a past in which he gave oxygen to falsehood, ruined reputations and incited a witch-hunt with chilling zeal.
I am not the only victim of O’Brien’s actions with regard to Carl Beech – but I am one of the few still alive to respond.
Well said.